Matthew Perry’s close friend rips his ex-fiancee Molly Hurwitz as a ‘con artist and grifter’ and fumes ‘shame on her!’
MATTHEW Perry’s friends have slammed his ex-fiancee after his death, accusing her of being a con artist.
The Friends star – who began dating Molly Hurwitz in 2018 and proposed to her in 2020 – was found dead in the hot tub of his Los Angeles mansion on Saturday.
Molly shared an emotional tribute to Matthew, in which she claimed the 54-year-old was “complicated” and “caused pain.”
The literary manager, 32, wrote: “I obviously knew that man in a very different way, too.
“While I loved him deeper than I could comprehend, he was complicated, and he caused pain like I’d never known.”
Matthew‘s friends have since slammed Molly’s statement and accused her of being a “con artist” whom the actor “hated.”
Actress Rome Shadanloo shared a screenshot of an article about Hurwitz’s statement on her Instagram Story
She wrote over it: “Shameful when the grifters and the con artists speak for the dead.
“He hated this woman who tried to sue him. Shame on her for using him….again.”
Rome’s post was re-shared by Matthew’s friends, including actor David Pressman, photographer Randall Slavin, and a man named Roger Castillo.
The three men appear to have been friends with Matthew for decades and shared tributes to the star on Instagram after his death.
David posted a throwback snap of the trio and wrote: “I met Matthew when I was 21 and he was 17. We became fast friends and along with our friend Roger Castillo we were inseparable.”
Molly has set her Instagram account to private since sharing her tribute to Matthew.
Elsewhere in her post to the sitcom star, she wrote: “No one in my adult life has had a more profound impact on me than Matthew Langford Perry.
“I have tremendous gratitude for that, for everything I learned from our relationship.”
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Al Anon, an invaluable resource for those who love someone struggling with this destructive disease.”
“Matty, I feel relief that you are at peace,” she concluded.
Matthew and Molly began dating in 2018 and got engaged in November 2020 before calling off the relationship in June 2021.
The actor previously admitted that he was “high as a kite” when he proposed to Molly while he was in rehab in Switzerland.
He opened up about their relationship in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“I bought her a ring because I was desperate that she would leave me,” Matthew recalled.
“I didn’t want to be this injured and alone during Covid. I was high on 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone when I asked her to marry me.”
“I had even asked for her family’s blessing. Then I’d proposed, high as a kite. And on one knee. And she knew it, too. And she said yes.”
The late actor recalled returning home from rehab sober and not remembering their engagement.
“I was not ready for any of this… I didn’t remember – needless to say, we broke up,” he penned.
Matthew was found unresponsive in the jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home by his assistant on Saturday afternoon.
Hours earlier, he had played pickleball with a female friend, who revealed the star had felt unwell and “fatigued” for the past week.
He returned home from the country club and sent his assistant on an errand.
His assistant found him unresponsive in the water when they returned and made a frantic call to 911.
Matthew, who played Chandler Bing on Friends, is believed to have drowned, but sources told the outlet that first responders were scrambled for a cardiac arrest.
His cause of death has been deferred, meaning medical examiners need more time to investigate. There were no signs of foul play.